What To Expect
The current feedback Tom received from readers was they wanted input that armed citizens, as well as police could benefit from. The fact is America’s police and law-abiding citizens are natural allies in the eternal War On Crime, as much as the gun prohibitionists try to drive them apart.
Historically, American citizens have modeled their choice of sporting rifles on what their military used (the bolt action did not begin to dominate the hunting fields until our military adopted the 1903 Springfield, and the autoloading rifle didn’t become really popular in the deer woods until M1 Garand-trained vets came back from WWII and Korea). However, they tended to model on police for their defensive handguns: The 2″ .38 revolvers of detectives and off-duty cops were long the choice of those with carry permits until the universal adoption of the police service pistol presaged the dominance of the autoloader for “civilian” concealed carry and the AR15 patrol rifle supplanted the 12-gauge “riot gun” and is on its way to doing so as a home defense weapon.
The Cop Talk column began when the double action service revolver and the slide-action shotgun were the majority armament of American police and went on to see them replaced with a light-mounted (and increasingly, optics-mounted) high-capacity autoloader in most police duty holsters and an AR in most patrol cars. We watched training progress from square-range rote shooting qualifications to high-tech electronic simulators and actual simulated gunfights with Simunitions.
That’s where we’ve been. Where we’re going will emphasize more the techniques of discreet but rapidly accessible concealed carry, the experiences of armed citizens as well as cops in lethal force encounters, and input from those who make and test state-of-the-art guns, holsters and ammunition. We’ll be looking at law and case law, and trends in the courts. (Hint: Soros-funded prosecutors don’t like armed citizens any better than they like the police.)
Read the full article here
